Found an ancient civilization to forgot Indian explorer

He marked an archaeologist in India, the route that marked the brightness and discussion made one of the greatest historical discoveries in the world. However, it is now forgotten.

In the early 1900s, Rakhaldas Banerjee (Banerji also spells also) Mohenjo-Daro – Sindhi means “Mounds of the Dead” in Pakistan today. Indus Blary Valley (Harappan) was the largest city, northeast of Afghanistan Northeast from northwestern India in the Bronze Age.

Banerjee, explorer and talented epigraphist, worked for the archaeological survey of India (Asi) when the country was within the British colonial rule. He spent months traveling to remote corners of the subcontinent, looking for ancient arts, ruins and scripts.

But while the discovery of Mohenjo-daro broke the ground, Banerjee’s heritage is clouded. Independent stripes and challengers of colonial protocols often had problems. He stained his reputation and perhaps eliminating the parts of his contribution from global memory.

Interestingly, Banerjee reports on Mohenje-Daro were never published asik. PK Mishra archaeologist later complained John Marshall, removing banerjee discoveries and claiming credit for the discovery.

“The world knows that Marshall found ruins of civilization and is taught in organizations. Banerjee is a trivial note,” Prof. Mishra other times Times of the newspaper India.

In his book, Finding forgotten cities: How the excavation civilization was foundHistorian Nayanjot Lahiri writes Banerjee “diplomatic and touching lacking and showed his feathers with a high hand.” His book also turns light on his discussions in Asia during his time.

To whom he warned, he tried to buy inscriptions and images from the Northeast Indian Museum without approval or knowledge of his boss.

Once again, some stone sculptures in a Banerjee Museum in Bengal tried to move, without the necessary consent.

In another case, he bought an ancient painting, thought they had paid more than they were necessary to consult his main.

“Many talents of Banerjee seemed to have always been able to rub the wrong way,” Lahiri wrote.

But Banerjee continues to be a significant figure among the historians and wise people in Bengal for Mohenjo-Daro.

He was born in 1885 to a rich Bengal family.

The medieval monument founded by Baharampur, which raised the city that grew up in history and the subject continued at the university. But he always had an adventurer.

Once, with writing an essay on an essay in India, he moved to the museum of a situation around to study the sculptures and scripts of this age.

In his book, Rakhaldas Banerji’s life and workThe author of Yama Pande warns how Banerjee joined 1910 as an excavation assistant and rose quickly in 1917 to become superintorological archaeologists in Western India.

This post was when Mohenjo-Daro did in Sindh in 1919. In the coming years, he revealed some of the most fascinating discoveries made a series of excavations on the site: ancient grandmothers, coins, stamps, pots and microlus.

Between 1922 and 1923, he found several wastes of clues about urban settlements created in the region, but most importantly, about 5,300 years ago – civilization of the Indus Valley.

At the time, historians did not yet find the full scale of Indus civilization, we now know about 386,000 km (999,735 km extension) throughout the Indus River Valley.

Banerjee’s top stamps were similar images and scripts in Pakistan Pakistan’s Punjab Province Punjab province. This helped set a link between the two sites, throwing light on the arrival of civilization in the Indus Valley.

1924. Until the year, the Banerjee project funds were dried and also transferred to Eastern India. With the site he had no more contact, nor to participate in any excavations, he writes in the book Pande.

But Nayanjot Lahiri warns Banerjee that he was transferred to his request after connecting questions about his expenses. He had a variety of work expenses.

Banerjee also revealed that he used the excavation grants to buy office furniture and expenses for his travel expenses.

His explanations failed their principals and recommended disciplinary action. After negotiation, Banerjee gave his request and led to another region.

Banerjee continued to work with the eastern Indian Asi. He spent most of his time Calcuttan (now Kolkata) and overseed the restoration work of many important monuments.

He resigned from ASI in 1927, but he married his departure discussion. In the years before departure, it became the main suspect in an idol theft case.

All started in October 1925, when Banerjee visited the Hindu shrine of Madhya Pradesh, there was a stone idol of a Buddhist goddess. Banerjee was accompanied by two low classification assistants and two farms, Lahiri in his book.

However, following the visit, the idol disappeared and Banerjee was involved in his robbery. He refused the involvement about the disappearance and a research was launched.

The idol later recovered Calcuttan. Although the case against banerje was discarded and the charges were not confirmed, Marshall emphasized in his resignation.

After leaving ASI, he worked as a Banerjee teacher, but faced economic difficulties for his elegant life.

Historian Historian Guha-Thakurta other times Banerjee has good food, horse carts and friends splashed the telegraph newspaper. In 1928, Banaras entered the University (Bhu) as a teacher. At 45 years later he died two years later.

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